Cyberglass's Fakemon Sprites

Started by Cyberglass June 9th, 2010 12:28 PM
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Cyberglass

the stuff Porygon are made of

Age 31
Male
Seen June 1st, 2022
Posted May 31st, 2018
156 posts
13.1 Years
I'm relatively new to spriting, but I've been designing fakemon for a while. Feel free to comment on both the pixels and the designs themselves; I'm always looking for ways to improve.

Just the usual disclaimers:
No Stealing
No begging me to make sprites for you, my hands are full enough doing my own sprites and I eventually want these ones to go into a ROM hack I'm making.

Now that the intro is out of the way, here are the sprites!

Spoiler:

Bloomeow
Grass type.
This will be my grass starter.

Flaribbit
Fire type.
This will be my fire starter.

Squill
Water type.
This will be my water starter.

Furmine
Normal type.
Catchable early on, it is based on a marten.

Finchy
Normal/Flying type
A basic bird fakemon.

Heliseed
Grass/Flying type.
A fakemon based on a maple seed.

Sandol
Water type. Evolves into Urfin via water stone.
A sand dollar fakemon with five mouths.

Urfin
Water/Steel type. Evolves from Sandol via water stone.
A sea urchin fakemon.

Samurunt
Fighting/Steel type.

Overkapi
Normal/Psychic type.
Like its cousin Girafarig, Overkapi has a second brain in its tail.
It conjures up clouds of mist to escape predators.

Submasect
Bug/Water type. Evolves into Aquascor at level 23.

Aquascor
Bug/Water type. Evolves from Submasect at level 23.


Stingle
Water/Psychic type.
I based it off a jellyfish.
The jewel on its forehead acts as a rudimentary third eye.


Dolphlame
Water/Fire type. Does not evolve.
This is the largest sprite I have done so far, and I had a bit of trouble making a smooth curve this large, but I am very pleased with how all the details came out, especially the flames on its back.
Unt, the ant fakemon.
Bug type. Evolves into Formignite at level 21.

Formignite, the fire ant fakemon.
Bug/Fire type. Evolves from Unt at level 21.

Atlectric.
Bug/Electric type.

Oddillo.
Ground/Psychic type.

Flobait.
Water type.

Kaketaiji, the Tai Chi fakemon.
Fighting type.

Cushpin
Normal type.

Possamp.
Electric type. My region's Pikachu wannabe.

Aquana, the iguana fakemon.
Water Type. This might end up as the water-type starter instead of Squill.


Parasoul, open and closed Formes. Psychic type.

Whirybdis. Ghost/Water type.

Esper

California
Seen June 30th, 2018
Posted June 30th, 2018


I really like this one. It's quite a nice job you did with the shading on this sprite. Sprites with so many pieces and angles aren't easy to shade convincingly, particularly parts which are only one or two pixels wide like some of those spines. She shading on the face gives a nice sense of depth. I don't feel like I'm looking at a ball with a mouth drawn on it, but something with more dimension.

On the one called Overkapi I can't help but see something odd with the raised leg. I'm guessing you're going for a foreshortened look, but it seems like it's just shorter than the other legs to me.

Cyberglass

the stuff Porygon are made of

Age 31
Male
Seen June 1st, 2022
Posted May 31st, 2018
156 posts
13.1 Years
@Kiryu: The shine on the leaves is mostly my poor pick of palette; they are supposed to look like geranium leaves. Out of these Bloomeow is the sprite am am happy with the least, especially shading-wise.

@Scarf: I think what happened with Overkapi is that I based the back legs too closely on Girafarig, who has a wider body. Overkapi's thinner body makes the legs closer together, which means less foreshortening is necessary. Thanks for pointing that out.

Bzhuan

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Seen June 10th, 2018
Posted December 25th, 2010
31 posts
13.1 Years
more shading would ruin it. I like how it is now.

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Bzhuan

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Seen June 10th, 2018
Posted December 25th, 2010
31 posts
13.1 Years
Aquascor is the awesomest thing I've ever seen... Maybe not the awesomest but on of the most awesome things or whatever...

Does samurunt have an evolution?

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Pekin

Wigglytuff is and has always been on acid.

Age 29
Male
Denmark
Seen 3 Weeks Ago
Posted July 25th, 2020
282 posts
14.2 Years
These are some really good sprites. I especially love Heliseed, that thing is epic!
Check out my ROM Hacks:

Fakemon FireRed: the Wiki and the ROM Hacks Studio post (Finished and playable!)

Pekin's Ruby Hack: the Wiki (My first hack - not nearly as well made or polished as Fakemon FireRed)

Esper

California
Seen June 30th, 2018
Posted June 30th, 2018
First update in a while:

Stingle
Water/Psychic
I like the reflective quality on the "dress" part, and really that part of the sprite is top notch. The head looks a bit off center though, probably because the arms are more or less mirror images of each other even though the sprite's angled a little to the left. The right arm doesn't quite take that into account so it looks like it's pulled back.

Oh, great colors by the way. They compliment each other well.

np7261

Exceeding Excpectations

Male
Australia
Seen December 28th, 2010
Posted December 28th, 2010
57 posts
14.7 Years
COmpletely fantastic! I love your sprites. My favourites are heliseed, finchy and squill. But honestly, all of them are great. Only cc is if you're trying to sprite d/p/p style, use less highlights. Usually there are only two shades on the sprites

E.G:



Of course this definitely does not apply to all sprites, specially water or metal types.

Keep up the fantastic work!



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Cyberglass

the stuff Porygon are made of

Age 31
Male
Seen June 1st, 2022
Posted May 31st, 2018
156 posts
13.1 Years
Thanks to everyone for the critiques!

For this sprite, I decided to do something less 'shiny' to practice variety in my shading. I also wanted to work on flames and smoke, both of which can be tricky to sprite, and luckily I had a fakemon concept with both:

Dolphlame
Water/Fire type. Does not evolve.
This is the largest sprite I have done so far, and I had a bit of trouble making a smooth curve this large, but I am very pleased with how all the details came out, especially the flames on its back.

Esper

California
Seen June 30th, 2018
Posted June 30th, 2018
Thanks to everyone for the critiques!

For this sprite, I decided to do something less 'shiny' to practice variety in my shading. I also wanted to work on flames and smoke, both of which can be tricky to sprite, and luckily I had a fakemon concept with both:

Dolphlame
Water/Fire type. Does not evolve.
This is the largest sprite I have done so far, and I had a bit of trouble making a smooth curve this large, but I am very pleased with how all the details came out, especially the flames on its back.
You should be pleased. The outline looks very smooth and the details are pretty sharp. But since nothing's perfect, you might try making part of the top outline of smoke lighter.

On this sprite the top outline isn't completely dark as yours is.

One other thing. The tail looks a bit awkward to me. The way it's angled I imagine it's the underside of the tail we're looking at rather than the top side. I think it's because the lower point of the tail looks slightly larger and therefore closer, sort of similar to how this Gyarados sprite looks.

The bottom half of the tail fin sticks out to the side because it's made to look like it's sort of lying flat. That's how your tail looks to me.
Age 30
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Kentucky, USA
Seen July 20th, 2010
Posted July 20th, 2010
28 posts
12.9 Years
Bloomeow and Flaribit's names seem kinda... unoriginal? I think that's the word I'm going for. And Urfin kinda reminds me of Solrock. Other than that, those are some really awesome designs!


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Cyberglass

the stuff Porygon are made of

Age 31
Male
Seen June 1st, 2022
Posted May 31st, 2018
156 posts
13.1 Years
@Scarf: you're right, the tail does look weird where it connects to the body; I'll try to fix that.

Here are some new Fakemon:
Unt, the ant fakemon.
Bug type. Evolves into Formignite at level 21.

Formignite, the fire ant fakemon.
Bug/Fire type. Evolves from Unt at level 21.

Esper

California
Seen June 30th, 2018
Posted June 30th, 2018
@Scarf: you're right, the tail does look weird where it connects to the body; I'll try to fix that.

Here are some new Fakemon:
Unt, the ant fakemon.
Bug type. Evolves into Formignite at level 21.
Those are nice colors. I think you did great on shading. There are a lot of overlapping parts, but they don't get lost. They're all quite clear.

The back leg on the right looks too straight though. The others are curved so it seems out of place. I also think it could stand out a bit more. It's mostly covered up.

Formignite, the fire ant fakemon.
Bug/Fire type. Evolves from Unt at level 21.
Again, well done on all the technical fronts: shading, color, linework, etc. I can't help but feel that the body, that is, the thorax, is very small looking. Smaller than the head. To me it looks a little out of balance, especially since it only has two legs on a side.
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Seen July 9th, 2011
Posted September 3rd, 2010
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13.7 Years
On Formignite, the abdomen is oddly placed. See, the way the abdomen and thorax are connected right now makes it look like the abdomen is always pointed upwards like that. So what you're going to want to do is make it look as if the abdomen is being curved upwards instead of just attached that way.

Unt doesn't really look all that much like an ant, anatomy-wise at least. Look at Formignite; there's a clear seperation between the three main body sections.

Cyberglass

the stuff Porygon are made of

Age 31
Male
Seen June 1st, 2022
Posted May 31st, 2018
156 posts
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Again, well done on all the technical fronts: shading, color, linework, etc. I can't help but feel that the body, that is, the thorax, is very small looking. Smaller than the head. To me it looks a little out of balance, especially since it only has two legs on a side.
I agree with the balance issue; the legs should really be splayed more. As for the thorax, it's based on an ant, so it's supposed to be smaller than the head.

On Formignite, the abdomen is oddly placed. See, the way the abdomen and thorax are connected right now makes it look like the abdomen is always pointed upwards like that. So what you're going to want to do is make it look as if the abdomen is being curved upwards instead of just attached that way.
I actually dsigned it so it IS always pointing up. It's a miniature volcano crater, so if it tipped back it would spill all the magma.

Esper

California
Seen June 30th, 2018
Posted June 30th, 2018


Wigglytuff and Tyrogue's cousins? Good pose on the fighting one, but yellow with red polka dots? :/

I think the normal could use a little more color. It's a little too normal, color-wise. Even the plainest sprites will usually have a prominent color and at least a white area for variety (like Marill or Wigglytuff). Not to say that it's a bad sprite. The color is good, and so is the shading, line work, etc., but it just needs a little something else to make it not look so much like a Wigglytuff/Clefairy.

Oh, and now that I look harder that ear seems to have a notch in it since the dark inner part of the ear nearly touches the outline.
Age 30
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Seen July 5th, 2013
Posted May 26th, 2011
1,696 posts
13.2 Years
Thanks for the crit, as always. I was having some troubles picking out a color for the fighting type; do you have any suggestions?
How about red. It's very agressive colour, and it definetly isn't,what some may think, girly colour.
Just a thought...

Lance
the Dragon master


-Gifted with powers of the Viridian forest
-Telepathically communicates with Pokémon
-Heals their wounds
-Controls Dragon Pokémon

Esper

California
Seen June 30th, 2018
Posted June 30th, 2018
Thanks for the crit, as always. I was having some troubles picking out a color for the fighting type; do you have any suggestions?
I'd try out a couple of combinations and compare them side by side to see what works best. Shouldn't be too hard since it's a small area to recolor. If it were me I'd just take two colors from an official sprite since they generally have good combinations going.

But if you want to know what I would try first, I'd go with something blue.